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Ukraine versus Afghanistan: Lessons in National Solidarity - American Affairs Journal

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In the end, regardless of U.S. foreign policy positions, the different trajectories of Afghanistan and Ukraine show that nations have their own capacities for self-determination, and nations choose their own futures. Ukraine is a lesson in how foreign invasion, as well as the higher pursuits of language, culture, and identity, can inspire a sense of national solidarity. Afghanistan is a lesson in how foreign intervention, money, and factionalism can erase the same dreams...

Summer 2022 / Volume VI, Number 2 B efore he was actually president, Volodymyr Zelen­sky, a comedian, starred as Ukraine’s fictional president in his three-season political satire Servant of the People . He played a junior high teacher who asked his students to leave the classroom one day so he could have a word with a school administrator. In private, he launched a tirade against corruption in the education system, while a student secretly filmed him from an open window nearby. The rant went viral on YouTube, riling up Ukrainians who were tired of government shakedowns for basic education and

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